So You Want To Be An Activist by Linda Soules is part of her larger career-exploration series for young readers. This entry tackles a subject most career guides skip entirely: the work of refusing to accept things as they are. The book walks young readers...

The Character Route Tree is a self-help memoir with author Marc R Schneider’s account of growing up in a household shaped by his mother Kiki’s anger, his father’s silence, and the fear rituals Schneider used to feel safe. His memoir traces the effect of that...

God Ain't Done With Me Yet is Min Diamond Golson's memoir about the struggles and mistakes she's made along the way and her search for where she belongs. Having a father who was absent most of her childhood led Golson to seek love and acceptance...

Trouble always seems to find Bethany Jarviss. Though she’s a fairly average woman working for her father in the Jarviss Family Foundation, Bethany somehow has two murder cases under her belt. But now is not the time for work or investigations as she tries to...

Sun Kissed & Salted by Angela Blair follows Alika Jones’s decades-long freefall through acts of self-destruction and survival. In 1988, she had a near-death bike accident in Los Angeles when she experienced an out-of-body episode. She abandons the stability of her life for a volatile...

Mark Binder’s The Worst centers on an ordinary eighth-grader who navigates the awkward world of a small New England middle school along with his tight-knit group of friends. Calling themselves Team Bomb Shelter, these clever middle schoolers use an ironic scale to rank their daily...

“At what point does the desire to succeed become indistinguishable from the willingness to harm?” For Tanner Barrett, the protagonist of Aaron Ryan's short novel The Darkness Within, that question is answered in a horrific manner. Tanner is an indie author caught in a slump...

Living with Strangers a memoir by author Robin Rosenbluth, describing moves between the life that formed her in New York and the year that tests her in Songa, a remote Kenyan settlement where Friends World College places her as an unpaid teacher. After her mother...

The Casserole Code is a fabulous debut cozy mystery by Maissie Wren. The whimsical town of Harmony Creek in Tennessee is known for its long-standing traditional Annual Church Potluck. Nora Beth Hensley, the town’s nurse practitioner, bakes her grandmother’s Blueberry Buckle for the event. At...

Born in Taiwan to a Chinese Muslim diplomat’s family, Fawzia Mai Tung spends her childhood learning how often a place can call a child foreign. Rootless Orchid follows her from early schooldays abroad into a life shaped by embassy postings, changing languages, religious duty, family...

J.S. Warner’s Measured Steps introduces us to Claire Morrison, a profiler whose own troubled past gives her an unsettling advantage when investigating violent crime. After Claire’s mother’s mysterious disappearance, Claire struggled to overcome addiction. Claire is called to investigate a victim whose body is surrounded...

Worth at Work by Randy Haveson and Kat Nisson is a thought-provoking inside-out blueprint for transforming service across industries. The authors dismiss the “smile harder” trap of compliance in customer service, arguing that exceptional service should be the result of the internal sense of worth...

In Pam Sears's Leo’s First Field Trip, a young boy reaches a major childhood milestone. We watch little Leo get on a school bus for his first-ever National Park visit. Joined by his parents, friends, and teacher, Leo tours the wilderness with a diligent park...

In Schrödinger's Glass by Chris Grall, a major malfunction happens during the first operational simulation of the particle accelerator outside Chicago. Objects across the region transform into strange, unpredictable artifacts with impossible properties. Some freeze everything they touch, some generate searing heat, and some stop...

Human Nature, Systems, and Christianity by Huizhen Sheng explores how the way we run our countries and economies comes right out of the inner workings of our minds. Sheng explains that our brains are split between a survival-driven side, which is basically the biological root...

Have you ever thought about what it’s like to be a lawyer? Linda Soules’s So You Want To Be A Lawyer is a children’s book that offers a look at the day-to-day life of a lawyer. According to Soules, these professionals help solve problems, interpret...

The Path of Least Regret by Parul Somani is a deeply personal guide to making hard decisions with clarity instead of certainty. Somani opens with the moment her own life was upended: a breast cancer diagnosis just days after giving birth, and the discovery that...

The Green Pumpkin by Jen Kennedy tells the story of Emmy, a girl who goes on a school trip to a farm. Soon, there will be a pumpkin contest, so Farmer Jim lets each student take one. Everyone runs to get theirs, always choosing the...

Let’s face it. College sports are a wheel of economic opportunity for institutions of higher education. In Semi-Pro: The Arc of College Sports from Amateur Ideal to Professional Reality, Clay M. Grayson captures the input and throughput of modern student-athletes into that wheel. He brings...

Rajni Kaur’s A Box of Delusions is a collection of original poetry that moves in a progression forward, each ranging in length, tone, and tenor. Among them is Sabotage, where a house of cards falls whenever the speaker lets something in, until the final collapse...